揠苗助长 meaning in English
try to help the shoots grow by pulling them upward; be over-anxious to have sth. grow up; do harm to a thing by being over-enthusiastic (about it); help [try to make] the rice shoots grow; pull up a corn by the roots in the hope of making it grow faster; pull up a seedling in the mistaken hope of helping it to grow; pull up seedlings to help them grow -- no profit but harm; pull up the sapling to make it grow more quickly -- spoil things by excessive enthusiasm; tug at a sapling to help it grow
Examples
- We don ' t want to push them and i am not saying i don ' t like them or i don ' t trust them
我们不想揠苗助长，当然我没有说我不喜欢他们，也没有说我不信任他们。 ” - At the same time , to analysis whether it is suitable to implement american language teaching for young children , and to explore the difficulty of american language teaching at present
然而在教育部宣布幼稚园不得教授美语等一连串的禁令复，不禁令人反思，幼儿阶段教授美语到底是向下扎根或是揠苗助长？